crash turned into new paint job

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nevenelestate

Discussion Starter · Feb 5, 2009 (Edited)

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crash turned into new paint job *lots of photos*

On Jan 25th my room mate and i were riding on CA route 33 North of Ojai, excellent riding road, and i went a little wide in a long right hand turn...

Notice the dark spot in the dirt, that's where i was forced into a low side, then slid to where the bikes are in the photo. The crosses show that someone else had a bad time in this turn, not sure if it was a car or bike.

I slide about 20 yards on the right side of the bike, i was wearing full leathers and just got a little dirty

then just before the bike stopped sliding it flipped over on the wheels and slammed down on the left side, smashing all kinds of stuff and denting my tank

i am working on repairing what i can from my bike and have bought some used panels from others and am fixing them up with my bike hopefully going to look like this when done

Here are some pics of my progress

fully disassembled

repaired crack on the left tail section

after the tail piece was painted over with the white coat

repaired cowl, had a crack that already was repaired partially when i bought it

painted the exhaust BBQ black

More pics coming

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ZeroSpawn

· #2 · Feb 5, 2009

WooOO, glad you were in full leather! Man that is scary crashing out were someone died, about 7ft more and you would of been sharing a beer with the last person.

Anywho, the color scheme looks hot!

While your at work on the bike I highly recommended in picking up a GSXR rear shock and put some new oil in the front forks. You only can do so much with the stock set up.

etham

· #3 · Feb 5, 2009

I like the design, but I would invert the paint so you have black white black instead of white black white. The reason being that the seat and mirrors and everything will disappear into the black nicely. and that big white slash will look nice over what would otherwise be a blacked out bike.

But the original will still look very nice if you go with that.

nevenelestate

Discussion Starter · #4 · Feb 6, 2009

Got the Upper Cowl back on

oh umm the red stripe will be coming off the wheel

tank will be painted tonight and i should be getting the "new" lower fairings today so i should have the white sprayed on them sunday.

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scottyb0119

· #5 · Feb 6, 2009

nice, looks good, what are you using for paint? It looks too good to be from a rattle can.

bpage08

· #6 · Feb 6, 2009

Are you painting yourself? If so are you using a gun or cans? Its looking pretty good so far and I've been wanting to take a shot at painting myself.

wcj

· #7 · Feb 6, 2009

Leave the red wheel tape on and see how it looks. I bet the red makes a real nice accent color to the wht/blk.

r3t1awr3yd

· #8 · Feb 6, 2009

Looks awesome so far. Just think of the crash as a shortcut to sanding/prep work lol.

efnar

· #9 · Feb 6, 2009 (Edited)

nevenelestate said:
On Jan 25th my room mate and i were riding on CA route 33 North of Ojai, excellent riding road, and i went a little wide in a long right hand turn...

I love that road, but every time I've been on it I've seen the immediate aftereffects of a motorcycle accident. So far, two fatalities and three broken bikes (with largely intact riders). That's not such a good ratio. Ride safe!

Josh

nevenelestate

Discussion Starter · #10 · Feb 8, 2009

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scottyb0119 said:
nice, looks good, what are you using for paint? It looks too good to be from a rattle can.

Rustoleum Semi-gloss black and Gloss white, the gloss white can be a pain in the ass, I've had to do at least two coats on every piece because of runs or fish-eyeing but after it dries, a full day, I just sand down the spots that need it and spray again.

bpage08 said:
Are you painting yourself?

I am painting it myself, my room mate has crashed several times on tracks, and roads, so he's done it several times so he's been helping me when needed

r3t1awr3yd said:
Just think of the crash as a shortcut to sanding/prep work lol.

its like getting a "new" bike haha and since i was wearing my leathers and wasn't hurt at all, I look back and laugh now, but yeah you always gotta be careful on a bike!

Got the first coat on the tank, it will definitely need a second, and maybe third, coat ecause it was hard covering such a large area quick enough to have it not dry in one spot and catch the dust from spraying another spot, and i ended up having some runs because it took a lot to get the dark gray stock paint covered

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nevenelestate

Discussion Starter · #11 · Feb 11, 2009

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So the tank is being a pain in the ass and i had to sand the whole thing down tonight, but before i did final touch up coats on the tail pieces i put them on the bike real quick to get an idea of what its gonna look like, here is a sneak peak...

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etham

· #12 · Feb 11, 2009

This is going to look freaking awesome! I take back what I said before about inverting it. The under side of that tail is perfect as it is.

JDub89

· #13 · Feb 11, 2009

im really likin the way it looks, what did you use to paint the exhaust? and how is it holding up so far

wcj

· #14 · Feb 11, 2009

We must have been thinking alike. This is how I painted my bike a few months ago after my incident. I like how that looks with the white.

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Coop

· #15 · Feb 11, 2009

Looks good.

Chilltake

· #16 · Feb 11, 2009

Looks very good. I do like the original grey it was though, but very nice how you are basically "tearing the grey apart" into white and black

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Keep us posted and GL with the tank.

BossMan

· #17 · Feb 11, 2009

Chilltake said:
Looks very good. I do like the original grey it was though, but very nice how you are basically "tearing the grey apart" into white and black ..

Keep us posted and GL with the tank.

+1

I like the original, but I think this will look just as good, if not better because it will be original.

Keep us posted!

SV Rider81

· #18 · Feb 11, 2009

****! Looks good!
Where did you pick up the paint from ?I need to touch up my bike too, needs some TLC.

kjkrow

· #19 · Feb 11, 2009

Looks great. Can't wait to see the finished product.

dubtecv2

· #20 · Feb 12, 2009

Lookin' good!

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